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  Nurse-driven, community-supported HIV/AIDS treatment at the primary health care level in rural Lesotho: 2006-2008 programme report

  Médecins Sans Frontières, 2009

  Lesotho has the third highest HIV prevalence in the world, with an estimated 270,000 people living with HIV and AIDS in the country, and 18,000 deaths annually of AIDS-related complications.
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  The impact of the AIDS pandemic on health services in Africa: evidence from demographic and health surveys

  National Bureau of Economic Research, USA, 2009

  This paper, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, documents the impact of the AIDS crisis on non-AIDS related health services in 14 sub-Saharan African countries. The authors, using multiple waves of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for each country, examine antenatal care, birth deliveries, and rates of immunisation for children born between 1988 and 2005.
• Organisation

  LeadingAge Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST)

  The Center for Aging Services Technologies (CAST) is working to expedite the development, evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies that will transform the ageing experience.
• Organisation

  Political and Social Economy of Care (UNRISD)

  This project is undertaking comparative research on the multiple institutions of care (households and families; states; markets; and the not-for-profit sector), their gender composition and dynamics,
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  A guide for monitoring and evaluation of Avian Influenza programs in Southeast Asia

  MEASURE Evaluation, 2008

  As the world enters its sixth year of responding to the challenges posed by highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), the international community has recognized the need to move from an emergency mindset to a mid- to long-term perspective. Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) systems form a critical element in these longer-term approaches.
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  Return to Alma-Ata

  The Lancet, 2008

  This editorial in the Lancet written by Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), looks at what has happened to primary health care (PHC) in the 30 years since it was articulated in the Alma Ata declaration.
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  12 steps for creating a culture of retention: a workbook for home and community-based long-term care providers

  PHI, 2008

  All long-term care agencies struggle to find and keep sufficient, reliable, and skilled staff capable of meeting client needs and providing great quality care. This workbook offers 12 concrete steps to guide agencies in developing excellent recruitment, selection and retention practices - the three key elements necessary to manage long-term care organisations successfully.
• Organisation

  PHI

  Advocacy and policy advisory organisation covering carework. PHI works to improve the lives of people who need home or residential care by improving the lives of the workers who provide that care.
• Organisation

  Health Systems 20/20

  Health Systems 20/20 works to strengthen health systems through integrated approaches to improve financing, governance, operations, and building capacity of local institutions.
• Document

  A comparative analysis of public social assistance systems in Belgium and health equity funds in Cambodia: an overview of lessons learned

  Studies in Health Services Organisation and Policy, 2008

  Belgium has a solidly implemented multi-purposed public social assistance system that is the result of a long social and political history.

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